Numerology Course - page 5.

Life Path

You are gifted with natural leadership and the capacity to accumulate great wealth. You
have great talent for management in all areas of life, especially in business and financial
matters. You understand the material world; you intuitively know what makes virtually any
enterprise work. Your talent lies not with the bookkeeping or petty management, but with
the greater vision, it's purpose, and long range goals.

You are a visionary and a bit reckless. You possess the ability to inspire people to join
you in your quest, but often they are incapable of seeing what you see. Therefore, those
around you need your continual guidance, inspiration, and encouragement. You must prod
them into action and direct them along the lines of your vision.

You attract financial success more than any other Life Path, but effort is required.

Your challenge in life is to achieve a high degree of detachment, to understand that power
and influence must be used for the benefit of mankind. Those born with the Number 8 Life
Path who do not understand the real and relative value of money are bound to suffer the
consequences of greed; they run the risk of losing it all!

You must learn to bounce back from failures and defeats. You have the character and resilience
of a true survivor. It is not uncommon for a person with your Life Path to experience major
reverses, including bankruptcies, and financial failure, but you also have the talent and
the sheer guts to make more than one fortune, and build many successful enterprises. More
than most people, your failures in marriage can be extremely expensive for you.

Despite the difficulties that life presents, you will experience the satisfaction that
comes from material wealth and the power that comes with it.

Business, finance, real estate, law, science (particularly history, archeology, and physics),
publishing, and the management of large institutions are among the vocational fields that
suit you best. You are naturally attracted to positions of influence and leadership --
politics, social work, and teaching are among the many other areas where your abilities
can shine.

You are a good judge of character, which aids you well in attracting the right people
to you.

Most 8s like large families and sometimes tend to keep others dependent longer than necessary.
Although jovial in nature you are not demonstrative in showing your love and affection.

The desire for luxury and comfort is especially strong in you. Status is very important.
You must be careful to avoid living above your means.

Your Life Path treads that dangerous ground where power lies - and can corrupt. You may
become too self important, arrogant, and domineering, thinking that your way is the only
way. This leads inevitably to isolation and conflict. The people you run the risk of hurting
most are those you love, your family and friends.

Be careful of becoming stubborn, intolerant, overbearing, and impatient. These characteristics
may be born early in the life of an 8 Life Path, who often learn these negative traits
after suffering under a tyrannical parent or a family burdened by repressive religious
or intellectual dogmas.

Those with the 8 Life Path usually possess a strong physique, which is a symptom of their
inherent strength and resiliency.

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Path

You are the philanthropist, humanitarian, socially conscious, and are deeply concerned
about the state of the world. You have great compassion and idealism. You are a utopian,
and will spend your life trying to realize some aspect of your utopian dream, sacrificing
money, time, and energy for a better world. It is in giving that you will find much satisfaction.

You have a broad outlook on life. You tend to see the big picture, rather than the minute
details. You naturally attract people from all walks of life who can fit into your larger
plans and take over the areas you find uninteresting. The person with a 9 Life Path is
rarely prejudiced or accepts social biases of other people. Instead, they evaluate people
on the basis of what they can do for the larger cause. They are the true egalitarian.

You are imaginative and creative, especially at harmoniously arranging the beauty already
potential in the environment. These abilities can lead you into such fields as interior
decorating, landscape art, and photography. But because of your strong social consciousness,
you can be an effective politician, lawyer, judge, minister, teacher, healer, and environmentalist.
Vocations that require self - sacrifice and have a clear social impact are common among
9s.

You are often disappointed by the realities of life: the shortcomings of others, or of
yourself. Somehow, you don't want to accept the imperfections of the world, a feeling that
drives you constantly to try to improve upon it. But rather than be satisfied with your
efforts, and those of others, you relentlessly push on, striving for greater accomplishments.
You are often unsatisfied with the results. In short, you lack the perspective that would
otherwise make it possible for you to enjoy life more fully, and accept its natural limitations.

You have a controlled enthusiasm and the ability to finish what you start.

A key to your personality is the necessity of sacrifice. You have to learn to let go of
material possessions and relationships, the inherent lesson being that holding on too tightly
to anything causes pain.

Money comes to you through mysterious or unexpected ways: inheritance; the benevolence
of someone who was inspired by your work; or a lucky investment.

Conversely, if you pursue money for its own sake, after giving up on your larger dreams,
you're likely to find yourself empty-handed.

The most successful and satisfying road for a 9 is giving, sharing, and sacrificing for
a larger goal without expecting anything in return. Your greatest chance at success is
to tie your personal fortunes to an endeavor that makes the world a better place for others.
Very often, this turns into a highly successful and lucrative enterprise, providing amply
for you and your family. Your life rests on the axiom that the more you give, the bigger
your reward.

You are romantic, but your love is more impersonal. You tend to be focused on your dreams.

When you are not in harmony with your true nature, you can fall to moodiness, or become
aloof, and withdrawn. You can become timid, uncertain, and ungrateful, putting the blame
for your troubles on others or the world. You have a gift for examining your life objectively,
and at some distance. Be honest with yourself. By openly facing your shortcomings, as well
as your strengths, you develop equilibrium. You are thus able to love and better understand
yourself and all of life.

Life Path

You have the potential to be a source of inspiration and illumination for people. You
possess an inordinate amount of energy and intuition. There is so much going on in your
psyche that you are often misunderstood early in life, making you shy and withdrawn. You
have far more potential than you know.

You galvanize every situation you enter. You inspire people, but without your conscious
effort. Energy seems to flow through you without your controlling it. This gives you both
power and sometimes emotional turmoil.

You are a channel for information between the higher and the lower, between the realm
of the archetype and the relative world. Ideas, thoughts, understanding, and insight --
all of these can come to you without your having to go through a rational thought process.
There seems to be a bridge, or connection, between your conscious and unconscious realms,
attuning you to a high level of intuition through which even psychic information can flow.

All of this amounts to a great capacity for invention. Many inventors, artists, religious
leaders, prophets, and leading figures in history have had the 11 prominent in their chart.

Because you are so highly charged, you experience the consequences of a two-edged sword.
You possess great abilities, but indulge in much self-reflection and self - criticism.
You often feel highly self-conscious. You are aware on some level that you stand out. Even
when you try to blend with your environment, you often feel conspicuous, alien, and out-of-place.

You are blessed with a message, or a specific role to play in life. But you must develop
yourself sufficiently to take full advantage of that opportunity. Until that time, your
inner development takes precedence over your ability to materialize the great undertaking
you were chosen to perform. Consequently, 11s seem to develop slowly, but they simply have
more to accomplish in their evolution than the average person. Thus, your real success
does not usually begin until maturity, between the ages of 35 and 45, when you have progressed
further along your path.

You may often be frustrated, largely because you have extremely high expectations of yourself.
But these expectations can be unrealistic, and can prevent you from accomplishing anything.
You can be very impractical, envisioning a skyscraper when all that was necessary was a
two-story house.

You may also suffer from bouts of confusion and lack of direction. This gives rise to
loss of confidence and the onset of deep depression. The cause of these emotional problems
is your lack of understanding of your own sensitivity and potential. Your desire to achieve
some great ambition is enormous. However, a lack of confidence in your own ability to realize
this dream may cause you much frustration. You sense the enormous potential you possess,
which requires equally enormous confidence in your ability to materialize your dream. Confidence
is the key that unlocks your potential.

On a strictly physical level, you must protect your nervous system, which is inordinately
vulnerable to stress because of your acute sensitivity. Depression is often the result
of long periods of stress that have gone unrelieved. Seek out peaceful and harmonious environments,
relaxing music, and follow a healthful diet in order to restore balance and peace.

As an 11 Life Path, you are a highly charged version of the 2 and possess many of the
characteristics and talents of that number.

You can be extremely diplomatic and tactful. You are also patient and cooperative. You
work well with groups and somehow find a way of creating harmony among diverse opinions.
You enjoy music and poetry and require a harmonious environment. You have an eye for beauty
and a fine sense of balance and rhythm. You have healing capabilities, especially in such
fields as massage, acupuncture, physical therapy, and counseling.

You are a sensitive and passionate lover; your perceptiveness makes you aware of your
partner's needs and desires, which you are able to fulfill with almost magical delicacy.
However, when you feel you have been mistreated or jilted, you can react with devastating
power, sometimes using personal criticisms vindictively.

You are a fine companion and possess a good sense of humor.

When you have found your niche in life and begun to realize your true potential, your
rewards will more than compensate for your trials earlier in life.

22 Life Path

You were born under the most powerful and potentially the most successful of all Life
Path numbers. It offers you the extremes of life's possibilities: on one hand, you have
the potential to be the Master Builder, the person capable of perceiving something great
in the archetypal world and manifesting it in the relative world; on the other hand, you
can slip into the depths of obscurity, achieving little more than personal support.

Your power is delicate. It exists by virtue of your ideals and vision, which you must
use to inspire others to join you in your dream. Only by marshalling collective forces
are you able to bring together the necessary elements - people, ideas, resources - that
will enable you to realize your goals.

Consequently, your Life Path is one requiring dramatic evolution. By being able to integrate
seemingly conflicting characteristics within yourself - your inspiring vision and your
natural tendency toward practicality, for example - you develop the talent to deal effectively
with a great variety of people. This allows you to understand and unite many differing
people toward a single goal, melding them into a concerted whole. Your task in life is
to unite the dream with the bottom line.

In short, you are the visionary with your feet on the ground.

You are good at business and politics. You naturally understand large institutions, and
have the ability to think and act on an international scale.

You are gifted with uncommonly sound common sense. You are able to see the beauty and
potential in a given idea, but also the practical methods that will bring it to fruition.
Somehow, you understand the limitations of ideas - what will work and what will not. This
is an intuitive gift that can evaluate possibilities on the basis of their practicality.

While in many aspects the 22 is the most promising number, it is also the most difficult
to live up to. You have a great ambition, which can be a most difficult master, driving
you to accomplish all that you are capable of.

You are a steady partner in any relationship. You offer sound advice and consistent emotional
support. You do not suffer from flights of fancy, and naturally resist the emotional heights.
You are unconventional in thought and action, but tend to be traditional in appearance.
You avoid airs and pretension.

Your challenge is to share your vision and allow others to make their personal contributions.
That requires flexibility on your part, perhaps your weakest characteristic. You often
lack faith in the ability of others. Therefore, you tend to control people and situations,
and are sometimes tempted to manipulate.

In the end, you must learn to surrender to the larger cause that you serve. The final
result may be quite different from your original vision, but with faith and commitment
you will make an enduring impact on the world.